Frost Valley YMCA is a camping, environmental education, and conferencing center located in Claryville, New York, part of the Catskill Mountains. Founded in 1901 as Camp Wawayanda, the camp moved to its present location in 1958. During the summer, Frost Valley runs a camp for 6–15 year-olds, most of whom are from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Throughout the rest of the year, Frost Valley hosts school groups and other organizations for environmental education and conferencing activities. Summer Camp The summer camp program at Frost Valley runs for eight weeks (four sessions, 12 days each). Each session starts on a Sunday and ends on a Friday, and nearly 500 campers attend each session. About 250 summer-time staff arrive the week before the first session, many of whom were campers when they were younger. Campers are broken up into villages by age and live together in cabin groups. Each village has a corresponding brother or sister village for the opposite gender of the same age. Camp is separated into two halves, Camp Wawayanda (ages 7–12) and Camp Henry Hird (ages 13–15). During the day, the camp schedule includes Specialties, Waterfront, Sports & Games, Feeling Good and an Evening Program. The Wellness Philosophy has been a part of camp for several decades. The camp promotes growth in "mind, body, and spirit" and the motto is "Build Strong." Frost Valley focuses on keeping its guests healthy and happy. The final week of summer is devoted to a Family Camp where family members from all generations come together for a week. Villages Villages are groupings of cabins or lodges, and most villages accommodate 30–40 campers each. Campers live in cabins or lodges that sleep eight per room. There is a 1-to-4 or 5 counselor to camper ratio, except when a camper has dialysis, in that case, there is a 3:8 counselor to camper ratio. The villages are: Wawayanda Rusk Mountain Village – Girls Grade 6 – 7 Fir Mountain Village – Boys Grade 6-7 Vly Mountain Village – Girls Grade 5-6 Eagle Mountain Village – Boys Grade 5-6 Rocky Mountain Village – Girls and Boys Grade 2-4 Barkaboom Mountain Village – Mini-MAC Henry Hird Hunter Mountain Village – Girls Grade 10 Slide Mountain Village – Boys Grade 10 Graham Mountain Village – Girls Grade 9 Peekamoose Mountain Village – Boys Grade 9 Plateau Mountain Village – Girls Grade 8 Wittenberg Mountain Village –